The U.S. home front has heard almost no U.S. broadcasts from the fighting fronts. Reason: even after 16 months of war, U.S. network radio still sticks largely to its peacetime ban on recordings.*
Meanwhile British radio, with no such ban, has brought the war closer to the English at home by recordings made at the front. Response has been enthusiastic.
Like documentary films, which Hollywood ignored and Britain developed into a vivid educational instrument, documentary radio is old stuff to BBC. It was inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features...
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